NEBRASKA ~ KEYA PAHA COUNTY ~ EVERGREEN CEMETERY
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Located in east half of Section 19, Township 33, Range 18 on private property
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Name			Birth		Death		Notes
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Cook, Charles		01-17-1923	01-29-1923	Baby
Draine, Mary E.		11-18-1889			Wife of T.M. Draine, Aged 40 yrs, 2 mo, & 7 days
Forgey, Mary Althea	02-28-1899	03-12-1900	Dau. Of w. & F.E. Forgey
Hicklin, L						Child died from being hit on the head by a pump handle
Honnen, Else		02-26-1891	08-30-1891
Honnen, Frank		05-03-1899	09-08-1899	Son of G. & S. Honnen
Honnen, Henry		02-28-1900	03-14-1900	Son of G. & S. Honnen
Leach, Stephen
Lusk, Charlie, E	12-20-1885			Son of E.E. & M.W. Lusk, Aged 3 yrs, 11 mos, 18 dys
MMC							Age 65
Paris, Eliza B.		01-21-1835	03-11-1921
Paris, H. B.		05-03-1826	02-04-1887
Sage, Nancy E.		04-19-1858	05-14-1886	Wife of J.L. Sage, buried with infant child in her arms
Schroeder, Louis	12-20-1876	12-23-1899
Shelly
Timms, Charles F.	08-10-1891			Aged 84 yrs.

There are other graves on this site but the stones are destroyed or unreadable.

In the early 1880's a family by the name of Babbitt, residing on a homestead a
few miles northwest of Carns, lost an infant son.  There was no cemetery near,
so the child was buried on the Babbitt's land.  Other deaths occurred in the
neighborhood, so a small plot of ground was fenced for a burying ground.  Cedar
trees from the Niobrara canyons were set out and the name EVERGREEN was given to
the cemetery.  On February 6, 1887, a Mr. Parrish was buried there, and in 1888
two men, both known to Keya Paha County history, were buried in Evergreen Cemetery,
Mr. Shelly and Stephen Leach.  The bodies of these two men lie at extreme lengths
from one another, Mr. Shelly in the southwest corner and Mr. Leach in the northeast
corner.  The two were not on friendly terms, and it was said one of them had
expressed a desire not to be buried near the other.